Gustrider Exuberant
Creature — Human Wizard
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28942
Gustrider Exuberant gives all your creatures with power 4 or greater flying for the low cost of sacrificing itself at your upkeep — a one-turn alpha strike enabler that trades itself for a single combat step. It's a narrow role-player, not a staple, but in the right deck it ends games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gustrider Exuberant is a Pauper-legal common, which is where it sees the most plausible competitive use — any stompy or big-creature shell that needs a surprise evasion layer can reach for it. In Commander it finds a real home in go-wide or Timmy-style decks that regularly field high-power creatures and want to push through a stalled board for lethal. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; the effect isn't impactful enough to justify inclusion when those formats win far earlier and more efficiently. Oathbreaker shares Commander's logic — if your gameplan hinges on one large attack, Gustrider Exuberant converts a board of ground-pounders into an unblockable air force for exactly the turn you need it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Gustrider Exuberant is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar bin without thinking twice. It won't hold or gain value, but you're not buying it for that; you're buying it because it costs essentially nothing to include and the effect can close out a game.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.